[Steve Bertrand <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I've got a handful of VLANs (802.1q) running over a Cisco infrastructure 
and I'm trying to capture the Ethernet frames on a switch trunk port 
while retaining the VLAN information contained within.

From what I can tell, in order to be able to do a port monitor on a 
Catalyst switch to sniff VLAN traffic, I have to assign the monitor port 
as a switchport access within a specific VLAN. I assume that when I do 
it this way, the VLAN tag is being stripped off before the monitor port 
hands off the packet to Wireshark. Is this correct?

Am I missing something obvious? I'd just like to be able to monitor ALL 
traffic that is ingress/egress on a specific trunk port for all allowed 
VLANs on that trunk, all the while retaining the VLAN information within 
the frame.

Thanks for any advice.

Steve